Bosom-board



(No Model.)

J. A. OUPLER.

BOSOM BOARD. No. 307,102. Patented 001;. 28, 1884.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT rTrcni JOHN A. CUPLER, OF DALLAS CITY,PENNSYLVANIA.

BOSOM-BOARD.

ZGIPECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,102, dated October28, 188 -1.

Applieationfiled February 26, 1884. (No model.),

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Be it known that 1, JOHN A. CUPLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dallas city, in the county of McKean and State ofPennsylvania, have inyented a new and useful Bosom-Board, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention has relationto bosom-boards upon which shirt-bosoms areto be stretched to remove the wrinkles therefrom while they are beingironed and polished; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed outin the claims appended.

Figure lis a viewin perspective of a bosomboard embodyingmyimprovements, the holding and stretching clamps being raisedpreparatory to pulling the shirt over the bosomboard. Fig. 2 is a planview with the holding and stretching clamps pulled down at the sides andend of the bosom-board to stretch the wrinkles out of the bosom and holdthe shirt in place while it is being ironed and polished; and Fig.3isabottomview showing the clamprr-sts and'the manner of hinging theclamps to the body of the board.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the bodyof the bosom board, which is provided near one end, at the lower ends ofthe swinging or hinged side clamps, I) 7), with short transverse kerfsor cuts 0 c, in which the lower wire arms of the side clamps, b I), workwhen the side clamps, b b, are being manipulated. Theupper face ofthebosom-board a is suitably covered or padded, the covering d being drawntightly over its face, down over its ends and side edges, and throughthe transverse kcrfs or cuts, and secured to the under face of the boardin any suitable manner. The side clamps, b b,

comprise the wire rods 0 secured to the under face of the bosom-board,so as to turn in wire staples ff, driven over said wires 0 e 011 a linedrawn from the inner ends of the transverse kerfs or cuts 0 cto theupper end of the bosom-board. The ends of the wires 0 e are first bentoutwardly at about a right angle to the main portions of the wires on aslightly upward incline to the under face of the board a, and thesebends are turned inward toward each other by short right-angled bends gg, which enter the ends of the wooden portions h ofthe clamps b b, andhold them rigidly on the bearings thus formed-that is, so that thewooden portions will not turn thereon, but will be carried with saidarms. The wooden portions h of the side clamps are nearly diamond shapein cross-section, the corners being rounded off to prevent thepresentation of cutting-edges to the shirt when on the board, causingthe departure from the diamond shape in cross-section. Thebottomclamp,?', is similar in construction in all respects to one of the sideclamps,except that it is much shorter and works at the straight portionof the edges of the board a,instead of in kerfs and at the downwardlyand outwardly beveled edges along" which the side clamps work.

It designates the wire for holding the neckand unwrinkled while it isbeing ironed and polished. XVhile the shirt is being pulled upon thebosom-board all of the clamps are raised, as in Fig. 1. After the shirthas been pulled upon the board and straightened out as well as it can bedone by the hand, the lower or end clamp is first turned down to stretchthebosom lengthwise as fully as possible, and then the side clamps areturned down, first one, which fits quite closely to the edge of thebosomboard and carries the fabric with it, taking out all wrinkles onthat side, and then the other side operating in a similar manner. byaccident there should be a wrinkle left, the end clamp may be raised andagain forced down, which willeffectnally remove it.

The device is cheap, simple, and convenient, and is cificient for thepurposes for which it is intended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a boso1n-board, the combination, with the padded body having thetransverse kerfs or cuts, of the side clamps consisting of the bentwires secured'to the under face of the board by staples, and havingangular end bends forming rigid bearings, and the wooden portions Inadenearly diamond shape in crosssection, rigidly secured to said end bends,substantially as specified.

and the wooden portions of said clamps rigidly secured on said angularbearings, substantially as specified.

, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my I 5 2. In a bosom-board,the co1nbinatio11,with own I have hereto affixed my signature in thepadded body having the short transverse cuts or kerls and theclamp-rests at the end and sides on its lower face, of the side clampsand presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. OUPLER.

\Vitnesses:

JNo. B. CHAPMAN, L. K. PURVTANOE.

end clamp, consisting of the bent wires turning in staples on the underface of the board, and having angular bearings on their end bends,

